Movie

The Needle

1989 · 76 min

A cold, drifting descent through a crumbling city, carried by rock music and a quiet sense of doom.

Tagline: Tsoi, drugs and Soviet rock.
Overview: Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Addiction, isolation, love, redemption
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: addiction
isolation
love
redemption
death
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild